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  1. I can chime in with a review here. We enjoyed a takeout dinner from L'Amorosa last night - just before lockdown begins and all the restaurants shut down. The food was quite nice and very reasonable to the wallet. We split the burrata with delicata squash and tomato appetizer. My wife didn't love the delicata (she's not big on any squash or zucchini) but we both agreed it was probably the best burrata we had ever had. I didn't think I would ever say that about burrata, which seems so simple. The first pasta was agnolotti in a beef ragu, which Andy reviewed above - we both agreed with his review. Very intense flavor and perfect for a fall night. We would have been better off with a red wine here. Next pasta was an orecchiette with a delicata squash sauce, greens, a bit of chile and breadcrumbs. This was good, but probably suffered the most from being takeout (and the second course). The breadcrumbs were imperceptible and I would have loved a bit more chile flavor to kick it up. The winner of the night was actually the entree - chicken with polenta, mushrooms and crisp prosciutto. We got this one for our son - the blanditarian. Not only did he scarf it down, but me and my wife were fighting for pieces of the chicken and even the sauce over the polenta. That good. Whatever chicken's he's nurturing in the back, I'm going to start stealing for myself. Wrapped up with two tiramisu, which was definitely overkill, but hey - last dinner before lockdown. All this came to less than £65 or about $85, so definitely a place I'll be revisiting.
  2. Pizzeria Da Marco in Bethesda has a patio that could accomodate that many. I'm not sure if MoCo regs allow parties larger than 6 at a single table, so you might need to be seated across two or three tables. Alatri Bros also has patio seating as well, but is probably not as strong pizza wise.
  3. Whatever you did, the UK did it too. I think this is about EU tracking rules. Rather than comply, some sites just block international access. Washington Gas is one of many I’ve come across.
  4. Whether I think the fees are too high or not (I do, for what it's worth), this is insane and not how a local county should be spending it's time. Elrich is going to squander tens of millions in federal aid because it's unspent, and he's worried about this????
  5. I still prefer Pho Nam in Gaithersburg on Shady Grove. They even let you pay with a credit card now. --- Dining in Merrifield (Ericandblueboy)
  6. It is, but most places in the US do pour 5-6 oz, so 4 oz looks stingy, as you said.
  7. I've heard this from every restaurant owner I've spoken with or read about. Property owners don't seem to be budging on rents - at all.
  8. Should this topic be moved to Rockville, where Bethesda is actually based? Sorry - been up since 4 am.
  9. Mentally adding this to my to do list.
  10. Agree on the sausage. And they need to get bell peppers as an option. That being said, Vace remains my favorite pizza night in the city. My son is seriously worried that they won't have pizza like Vace when we move (they won't - we'll survive). Gotta love a place this down to earth nearby.
  11. I'm pretty sure it was just a fluke weekend of traffic - we went to Long Lake. I think a lot of those regional airport flights are gonna be slow to come back.
  12. The last time we drove to Maine it took 17 hours. We decided we were never going to do that again.
  13. Pancakes! It masks the green. Even better if you just get the yellow squash.
  14. Passage to India has added delivery through some of the apps - a welcome addition to our dining out-in retinue. Wish I had the time/energy to go pick it up, but the delivery makes a bid difference. They've also added some more dishes you'd traditionally see at Indian restaurants (tikka masala, lamb ghost, etc) to the menu which let's us pick up a couple things for the less adventurous eaters. The cooking is still great - I hope these changes let them keep doing what they're doing!
  15. Sounds like a yummy dinner to me! Goldfish are the one kid food that I'll still go for all of the time.
  16. London - which is why I can forgive myself for ordering in two meals today (partly first day of school reasons, too). Any move is tough though. I can't imagine trying to supervise virtual school for a six year old. Meals are something that should be simple, simple at that point.
  17. You could always mix things up by trying to orchestrate an international move and home sale. Can't recommend it highly enough - it's doing wonders for my anxiety level.....
  18. The last line is what got me. I'm just imagining an old fashioned water wheel that spins around when you pee on it. You could make it like the carnival game where you hit the base with a hammer to see if you can hit the bell. Sales of FloMax would skyrocket!
  19. I saw the Yale study and had the same initial thought - why did they get those results? It's not the latter explanation, by the way, 2/3rds of people got more than their prior income in unemployment benefits ($600 federal plus the normal state benefit), and the result was statistically significant, meaning 2/3rds would have been irrational in the short term. I think what they're actually seeing is people thinking longer term combined with states that threatened to withdraw benefits if people didn't return to work. Anecdotally, servers and others locally are absolutely making the rational, short-term decision to stay home and accept more money. I've spoken to several restaurant owners that are dealing with this - I should add that most completely sympathize with the servers, who would see their actual earnings when they return plummet not just from the benefit level but even from their actual earnings prior to Covid. My guess is that they'll have to return in the absence of a benefit extension and we'll see a second leg down in consumer spending. I haven't heard this about cooks, though, interestingly. Perhaps it's the tips (and previously higher take home pay) that make the difference? I do think though that it's important to remember that all this behavior is exactly why experts argued for larger unemployment benefits - to incentivize people to stay home to flatten the curve. Framing benefits as a percentage of prior earnings would have worked at a lower cost, but the unemployment systems simply didn't allow for it. Sometimes policies are whatever works and is implementable rather than what's the absolute best way to accomplish something.
  20. OK - so I'm going to wade into this discussion with a slight variant - best Bagel Sandwich. Call Your Mother just opened up a trolley in Bethesda (so that us MoCo people never have to leave the county) and I suggested my wife and daughter pick up bagels to start their road trip to NOLA for junior year. The next few hours were full of random texts about the best bagel sandwich ever and how they literally stopped driving so that they could completely enjoy it. The sandwich was the Sun City Bagel - everything bagel with eggs, bacon, cheddar, American cheese and spicy honey. Well - with those raves, I just had to try this bad boy out. Two weeks (and three bagel sandwiches later), I'm going to jump on the bandwagon. Damn. That's an amazing sandwich. I want to be a pig on the farm where they get that bacon. I'm just imagining those pigs chilling in mud hot tubs with twice daily massages or something. Ditto for the cheddar. The American cheese actually works well with the rest too. It's a belly bomb and is not helping me drop the Covid 19, but I consider my indulgences restrained based on how good this bagel was. There's a variant with pastrami instead of bacon but my bad Jew gene kept me fixated on the bacon. I'll let you know if I ever try the pastrami before I move. I did try the Banyan Tree, which is herbed cream cheese with bacon, jalapeño and red cabbage. Good, but nothing like the Sun City, which should be placed on top of a trophy case somewhere. We also tried the bagels (3 everything, 3 zaatar, 3 sesame and 3 plain) but we usually freeze ours to eat over the course of a couple weeks and we found that they tended to burn when you defrost and toast them before the insides were totally warmed. I'm sure that's not how Consumer Reports would test bagels, but it's how we actually eat them so we'll probably stick with Bethesda Bagels because what's the other option? Leave MoCo?
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